Sen. Ron Wyden talks net neutrality at Portland City Club meeting.
Speaking to a packed crowd Wyden explained what net neutrality actually means, why it’s important for Oregon startups and how to push forward. The talk earned Oregon’s senior senator a standing ovation.
Check out the highlights below.
Minutes before @RonWyden set to talk on #netneutrality, Oregon’s senator introduces bill to combat #cybersecurity threats to elections. pic.twitter.com/9VKX1tyskA
— Oregon Business (@OregonBusiness) June 30, 2017
“The principle of net neutrality is to make sure every kid in America — not just the kids of the fortunate few — but every child in America enjoys equal opportunity to conduct research for their classes.
It means all job seekers have equal access to employment opportunities on the web.
It means the new startup can become the next Youtube, Google or Facebook.
And it means all Americans have the freedom to inform themselves and express themselves.”
“Citizen pressure really matters. And we have to have that now in the fight for #NetNeutrality.” @RonWyden pic.twitter.com/fgsh9pSDNz
— Oregon Business (@OregonBusiness) June 30, 2017
“One colossally bad decision that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention lately — because over the last five months there’ve been a lot of bad decisions — gave ISP’s the ability to sell browsing history to advertisers.”
“You want to harm consumers? Then just give a green light to all of these (media) monopolies.” @RonWyden #netneutrality pic.twitter.com/NO9ROGdFrs
— Oregon Business (@OregonBusiness) June 30, 2017
“Net neutrality puts startups on a level playing field. Oregon has always been about startups and that person who’s got a dream. Net neutrality is an integral part of digital trade.
We need strong rules in place to push other countries to make sure they don’t discriminate against those small Oregon firms that want to do business overseas.”
“How do we actually move forward? To me this calls for a full dose of real competition.” @RonWyden #NetNeutrality #pdxcityclub pic.twitter.com/vmCWzAyizu
— Oregon Business (@OregonBusiness) June 30, 2017
“It’s not by osmosis that you don’t have an anti-net neutrality speaker today. No none wants to stand up and say, ‘Hi, I’m here today to stack the deck against small internet startups.'”
